If you are a person who has plan to move to Canada permanently, this note can help you to know how important is to improve your English or French language to have a better chance to immigrate to Canada.
There is an example to compare scoring in Express Entry for same person with different language level.
Sara is 29 years old from Africa with more than 6 years work experience in NOC A and has Master’s degree in mechanical Engineer who applied last year with Canadian Language Bench mark or CLB 7 (it is equal to IELTS Listening6.0 Reading 6.0 Writing 6.0 Speaking 6.0) and this year applied with CLB 9 (it is equal to IELTS Listening 8.0Reading 7.0 Writing 7.0 Speaking 7.0). Sara dos not have any family or close friend, back ground study and work experience in Canada.
| Factors | Maximum points | Your points with CLB 7 | Your points with CLB 9 |
| Age | 110 | 110 | 110 |
| Education | 150 | 135 | 135 |
| Language | 138 | 68 | 124 |
| Additional Language (French) | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Education and Language | 50 | 25 | 50 |
| Work experience and Language | 50 | 25 | 50 |
| Total | 363 | 469 |
As you see, she did not have enough score to receive invitation to apply for permanent residence last year while this year, her score very close to minimum score of people who got invitation. Express Entry design for skilled and educated people who want live in Canada. From January 2020 until September 2020, Canada issued more than 60,000 invitation to apply for permanent residence.
Express Entry is cheapest way to immigrate to Canada. If you are educated with at least one-year full time work experience in manager position, professional job or technical job, with at least CLB 7 in English or French, take your chance and apply for Express Entry.
